Expedition 30 Crew Returns to Earth Safely

Welcome back home to the Expedition 30 crew of the International Space Station! The Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft carrying Commander Dan Burbank and Flight Engineers Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin landed in Kazakhstan on Friday, April 27 at 11:45 UTC (7:45 a.m. EDT). They undocked earlier from the International Space Station at 8:18 UTC (4:18 a.m. EDT). Take a look at the video of how painstaking it is to extract the crew from the Soyuz capsule!
Expedition 31 began when Burbank, Shkaplerov and Ivanishin undocked from the station. On board the ISS now is Commander Oleg Kononenko and Flight Engineers Don Pettit and Andre Kuipers. They will continue their stay until July 1, and they will be joined in in mid-May by Flight Engineers Gennady Padalka, Joe Acaba and Sergei Revin. Right now, their launch is scheduled for May 15 and their stay in space would last until September 17.

ok its not really that painstakingly difficult to get out. unbuckle, fall to floor, crawl out. not very graceful.

It IS painstakingly difficult to get out when you have to be carried out by 3 people. Its about comfort. I’m willing to bet if the capsule was on fire when it landed those mofos would be out in 3 seconds flat.

ok its not really that painstakingly difficult to get out. unbuckle, fall to floor, crawl out. not very graceful.

It IS painstakingly difficult to get out when you have to be carried out by 3 people. Its about comfort. I’m willing to bet if the capsule was on fire when it landed those mofos would be out in 3 seconds flat.